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Summer Arrives with Midnight Dread’s Reggae MD Global Listening Party
“Smiling Children” in Jamaica painting by Deeling Gregory This signal never ends. Tune in now. My monthly interactive world-wide, your guide, massive & mighty Reggae Music Listening Party...
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Cool Up July’s Musical Heatwave with the ongoing Reggae MD Listening Party
This conscious reggae signal never ends. Reggae MD’s good for you monthly world-wide, your guide, massive Reggae Music Listening Party occupied all time zones July 19th from Noon-4pm Hawaiian Time,...
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The I-fficial Hugh Mundell Version Excursion (A Jah Raver Mix)
So a few months back I put together a Hugh Mundell Version Excursion Mix from various 7″, 10″, and 12″ B-sides from my collection. I thought it was decent but the people loved it and it quickly became...
View ArticleThe Riddims That Hit ’em: The Best Reggae Riddims
Over the next several weeks we will focus on Jamaican reggae riddims. In reggae, riddim is king and queen, alpha and omega. So today I have included 10 of my favorite reggae riddims. It was torture...
View ArticleHugh Mundell tribute EP surprisingly refreshing
This guy Brent Hoskins contacted me a while back after buying a record from me and he told me that he’s a musician working on a Hugh Mundell tribute album. I didn’t think much about it. People email...
View ArticleSUGAR MINOTT & TREVOR CASTELL in REGGAE INTERNATIONAL LP (Kibwe, Washington,...
Kibwe was a late 80’s label based in Washington D.C., USA. It was run by Ras Jesse who also was the label’s producer. The label recorded and produced Tinga Stewart, Sugar Minott, Eric Monte Morris and...
View ArticleTen Things You Didn’t Know About Jacob Miller
“If reggae lost its soul when Marley died, it lost its heart when Miller died.” – Jah Raver Jacob Matthias Miller is one of reggae’s greatest treasures. In addition to being one of reggae’s most...
View ArticleProtojé is “Stylin'”
“Can’t pop no style on I girl.” Protojé hails up the great Hugh Mundell in “Stylin’,” the second single from his third studio album, ANCIENT FUTURE, scheduled for release in 2015. Another rock-solid...
View ArticleAugustus Pablo “Crucial Burial”/”Sounds of Redemption Dub” (Rockers) 12″
Augustus Pablo’s interpretation of the Wailers’ “Funeral” AKA “Burial” backed with “Sounds of Redemption Dub” on a Rockers 12″ (1979). Check the vocal intro by Jah Levi, also known as Hugh Mundell....
View ArticleAugustus Pablo Tribute website
hi dear friends, im presenting to you a tribute website devoted to the Great Augustus Pablo . With Ton Van Arnhem, we are trying to pay a deep hommage to Horace Swaby’s art. Augustus Pablo aka...
View ArticleMidnight Raver meets Barrington Levy inna Kingston Town (EXCLUSIVE interview!)
It was during my recent trip to Jamaica in December that I had the unique opportunity to sit down with Barrington Levy and talk with him about his life, career, and his new album. I received the phone...
View ArticleHugh Mundell “Blessings of Fari”/”Rent Man” (MunRock)
Killer vocal and dub by Hugh Mundell from the 1983 Arise LP. The riddim was laid down by Aston “Family Man” Barrett and his brother Carlton, both of Bob Marley’s Wailers, during sessions which...
View ArticleHugh Mundell live, Oakland, CA, December 11th & 12th, 1981
While conducting new research on the life and times of Hugh Mundell, we discovered that he performed two additional dates in Oakland, CA that were never before documented in Jah Raver’s in-depth...
View ArticleHugh Mundell, Don Carlos dubplate [Fatman]
Included here is a digital transfer of my Hugh Mundell/Don Carlos 12″ black slate dubplate. Mundell blesses the a-side with “Jah Fire Will Be Burning,” a Jammys production which was issued in 1980 on...
View ArticleReggae Pounding MD #79 July 12th-13th, 1981 KTIM
Love pumpin’ Higgs & Cliff’s “Sons of Garvey” plus debuts of Toot’s “Papa D”, Hugh’s “Can’t Pop”, Eek’s “Wa Do”, Beat’s “Doors Dub” & other Summer ’81 simmering sounds hotter than July. Listen...
View ArticleJah Music MD #85 August 23rd-24th, 1981 KTIM
Hugh’s iconic “Jah Music” JA 12″ debuts, 3 live songs for Bob from ’81 Sunsplash’s Tribute air, as ’nuff new music travels to CA after ‘splash. In the 100 days since Marley passed reggae’s been on...
View ArticleHugh Mundell’s sister killed in Golden Spring
I just received word from Dermot that Hugh Mundell’s sister Andrea Mundell-Bowen was killed in Jamaica. She had moved back to Jamaica recently from London in order to open a coffee farm. She was very...
View ArticleRise Shine MD #88 September 13th-14th, 1981 KTIM it dread inna Inglan
Bunny, Peter, & big UK set. Muta tells truth about lack of reggae on JA radio in riveting live ’81 Sunsplash tape. System exposed as fraud at midnight. Call out for everyone’s All Time Top Five...
View ArticleStorm Music MD #90 September 27-28th, 1981 KTIM sunblast coming
This smokin’ show has 1st announcement of Sunblast, 1st Major US Reggae Fest & The Wailers 1st concert abroad since Bob died. Jaharmi singer Tony Moses debuts this Harold Butler gem & toasts 2...
View ArticleBerkeley Sunblast Wrap MD #94 Pt 1 Oct 25-26 1981 KTIM 1st Major US Reggae...
The day after North America’s 1st reggae festival Midnight Dread celebrates its success by highlighting the show’s amazing line-up: The Wailers with Judy Mowatt & Marcia Griffiths + The Light Of...
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